Performing Early Modern Drama Today Early Modern Drama On Screen

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139777179
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Early Modern Drama Today: Early modern drama on screen written by Pascale Aebischer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern performance, featuring chapters by academics, teachers, and practitioners, incorporating a variety of approaches. The book examines modern performances in both Britain and America and includes interviews with influential directors, close analysis of particular stage and screen adaptations and detailed appendices of professional and amateur productions. Chapters examine intellectual and practical opportunities to analyse what is at stake when the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are performed by ours"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139788531
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Early Modern Drama Today written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern performance, featuring chapters by academics, teachers and practitioners, incorporating a variety of approaches. The book examines modern performances in both Britain and America and includes interviews with influential directors, close analysis of particular stage and screen adaptations and detailed appendices of professional and amateur productions. Chapters examine intellectual and practical opportunities to analyse what is at stake when the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are performed by ours. Whether experimenting with original performance practices or contemporary theatrical and cinematic ones, productions of early modern drama offer an inspiring, sometimes unusual, always interesting perspective on the plays they interpret for modern audiences.

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107024935
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Early Modern Drama written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascale Aebischer provides the only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen, expanding the scope of Shakespearean performance studies.

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139793070
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Early Modern Drama Today: The actors' Renaissance season at the Blackfriars Playhouse written by Pascale Aebischer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern performance, featuring chapters by academics, teachers, and practitioners, incorporating a variety of approaches. The book examines modern performances in both Britain and America and includes interviews with influential directors, close analysis of particular stage and screen adaptations and detailed appendices of professional and amateur productions. Chapters examine intellectual and practical opportunities to analyse what is at stake when the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are performed by ours"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Pamela Bickley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472577167
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama written by Pamela Bickley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical climate of the early modern period. This book provides an essential overview of some major dramatic works from their stage origins to today's screen productions. Each chapter includes: · a detailed analysis of a play by Shakespeare considered alongside a key work by one other significant playwright of the day (including The Merchant of Venice, Volpone, The Spanish Tragedy, Titus Andronicus, Othello, The Changeling, Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi, Measure for Measure, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tragedy of Mariam, Doctor Faustus and Hamlet) · close reading of the text · discussion of early modern theatrical practices · a focus on one ground-breaking example of early modern drama on screen · suggestions for links with other early modern texts and further reading This book provides a route map to the very latest developments in early modern drama studies, fostering confident and independent thinking, making it an ideal introduction for students of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Author : Harry R. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108897754
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare written by Harry R. McCarthy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element provides the first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edward's Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School ('Shakespeare's School') in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern plays, providing the most substantial repertory of early modern drama available for examination by scholars. The Element provides a comprehensive account of the company's practices, drawing on extensive rehearsal and performance observation, evidence from the company's archive, and interviews with actors and key company personnel. The Element takes account of the company's particular educational and strongly interpersonal environment, suggesting that these factors have a distinctive shaping force on their performance practice. In the hands of Edward's Boys, the Element argues, early modern drama becomes the source of company creation, ensemble practice, and virtuosic physical play, inviting us to reimagine what it means – and takes – to perform these plays today.

Author : Associate Professor of Early Modern Performance Studies Pascale Aebischer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107250185
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Early Modern Drama written by Associate Professor of Early Modern Performance Studies Pascale Aebischer and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascale Aebischer provides the only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen, expanding the scope of Shakespearean performance studies.

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521193354
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Early Modern Drama Today written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent performances of early modern plays are analysed in essays by practitioners and academics, featuring critical, pedagogical and practical approaches.

Author : Eric Dunnum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351252631
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London written by Eric Dunnum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London explores the effects of audience riots on the dramaturgy of early modern playwrights, arguing that playwrights from Marlowe to Brome often used their plays to control the physical reactions of their audience. This study analyses how, out of anxiety that unruly audiences would destroy the nascent industry of professional drama in England, playwrights sought to limit the effect that their plays could have on the audience. They tried to construct playgoing through their drama in the hopes of creating a less-reactive, more pensive, and controlled playgoer. The result was the radical experimentation in dramaturgy that, in part, defines Renaissance drama. Written for scholars of Early Modern and Renaissance Drama and Theatre, Theatre History, and Early Modern and Renaissance History, this book calls for a new focus on the local economic concerns of the theatre companies as a way to understand the motivation behind the drama of early modern London.

Author : Evelyn Tribble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472576055
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre written by Evelyn Tribble and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.